The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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SIGMUND FREUD The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forc...
SIGMUND FREUD Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...
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SIGMUND FREUD I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whethe...
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SIGMUND FREUD A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror...
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SIGMUND FREUD If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepar...
SIGMUND FREUD One is very crazy when in love.
SIGMUND FREUD We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay ...
SIGMUND FREUD Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually ele...
SIGMUND FREUD It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are...
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SIGMUND FREUD It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
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SIGMUND FREUD Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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ANNA FREUD Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
ANNA FREUD Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
ANNA FREUD A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
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training.
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SIGMUND FREUD Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
SIGMUND FREUD If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet...
SIGMUND FREUD He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If h...
SIGMUND FREUD A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace...
SIGMUND FREUD Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence ...
ANNA FREUD I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would prob...
SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD Anatomy is destiny.
SIGMUND FREUD Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the gi...
ANNA FREUD Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
SIGMUND FREUD Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...
SIGMUND FREUD In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ide...
SIGMUND FREUD Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
SIGMUND FREUD My different personalities leave me in peace now.
ANNA FREUD Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
CLEMENT FREUD